Most epic scene in a video game?

Originally Posted by Wolfen

Pretty explosions and pre-rendered cutscenes do not an epic game make.

But great gameplay, a deep storyline, and developed characters do.

Hey 315, have you ever played Jade Empire? I would recommend that if you liked Mass Effect. The gameplay is not as polished, but like Mass Effect, Jade Empire's endgame was one incredible rush.

Some Zelda fan will come here to rape you for that. You have been warned.

I doubt it. Our General Gaming regulars are surprisingly not too devoted to Zelda.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

But great gameplay, a deep storyline, and developed characters do.

Exactly.

I doubt it. Our General Gaming regulars are surprisingly not too devoted to Zelda.

Fanboys can smell the undevoted. They will come for him.

But on topic, the "Entering Subspace" cutscene from the SSBB story mode was incredible. Especially once the music started playing.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

But great gameplay, a deep storyline, and developed characters do.

Which OoT had in spades.

Originally Posted by Dr. von Fish

Hey 315, have you ever played Jade Empire? I would recommend that if you liked Mass Effect. The gameplay is not as polished, but like Mass Effect, Jade Empire's endgame was one incredible rush.

No, I haven't actually. Heard nothing but good things about it, though.

Is is on Steam? If so I may get it.

I don't know if others would count this as epic, but there are some moments in the Half-Life 2 series, that when playing for the first time, I heard that techno music kicking in and just had a wave of euphoria until the battle was over. Especially true of the Episode Two final level.

Also, setting up defences against huge forces in Company of Heroes, when there's machinegun fire and mortar fire everywhere and artilery strikes are being called in and you're trying to co-ordinate against that last damn tank that's almost broken through your lines. That game is so intense.

Originally Posted by Dread

Which OoT had in spades.

Don't kid with me. The only developed characters were Navi, the Tree, and Ganondorf.

The nuclear bomb explosion during Call of Duty 4. Maybe not that epic, but I thought it was pretty impressive.

Good explosions are always cool. Read my OP.

Originally Posted by beejay

The nuclear bomb explosion during Call of Duty 4. Maybe not that epic, but I thought it was pretty impressive.

I thought about replying here with that. It really is an amazingly done scene. I think IW outdid themselves there.

I think the end of MGS 1 was pretty epic for a PS1 game. Megaman Legends had some epic boss fights but most of them were easy.

I guess the real award goes to the ending of HL2 EP1. Those tracks were destroyed. :/

Originally Posted by Valhelm

Good explosions are always cool. Read my OP.

Are you related to Michael Bay by chance?

I'm more of a Roland Emmerich person.


I do like me some explosions, though.

I would say the cutscene after you play Oath to Order near the end of Majora’s Mask. That scene just felt so awesome to me…

Yeah, that is pretty cool. I liked that a lot.

Have you noticed how cool the Giants are, despite having such simple character models?

"E....B....A!
E...B...A!
E..B..A!
E.B.A!
EBA! EBA! EBA!"
"Are you ready?"
"YEAH!"
"3, 2, 1, let's go!"

That would be from Elite Beat Agents, for all you philistines who have never played it. It's from the finale. The agents have just been turned into statues by the villains, thus crushing the rebellion. Then a little girl starts chanting "EBA!", other people start joining in, until eventually the combined might of their cheering de-statuefies the agents, and they begin dancing to "Jumpin' Jack Flash" to defeat the aliens.



The finale to Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer probably counts. You have, for the whole game, been stuck with a curse that gives you an almost irresistible need to consume souls. At the end you travel to the plane of the dead, leading a crusade and wielding a mystical sword of immense might, to tear down the wall of the faithless* to end your curse.

*In the Forgotten Realms setting all those who die without pledging allegiance to any of the deities ends up built into a wall and slowly consumed by acidic moss for centuries. You're leading a crusade of people (well, mostly angels, actually. And a Lich) who feel that it's very existence is unjust.

Isn't Neverwinter Nights an MMO?

Originally Posted by Valhelm

Isn't Neverwinter Nights an MMO?

Nope. Neither of the two Neverwinter Nights games are MMOs. Both can be played entirely on a computer with no internet connection.

Both have an excellent and thriving online service, though, helped immensely by having both games ship with the developer toolset and server software.

Oh, okay. Is there a word for games like that? I really like that genre.

They're just Computer RPGs.

I suppose the narrowest genre definition would be "Western fantasy computer RPGS.) (Most of 1 is "low-fantasy", or "Swords and Sorcery", as is most of the core game of 2. Mask of the Betrayer (and Hordes of the Underdark) however, are definitely "High fantasy")

Some CRPGs ship with toolsets, some don't. Some can be multiplayer, others aren't. There's no hard-and-fast term for them, alas.